Christine Checinska
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Christine Checinska | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of London (PhD) University of the West of England, Bristol (BA, MA) |
| Thesis | Colonizin in reverse! The creolised aesthetic of the empire windrush generation. (2010) |
| Website | Christine Checinska |
Christine Shaw-Checinska is a British Jamaican womenswear designer, curator and art historian. She is the inaugural Senior Curator of African and African Diaspora Fashion and Textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her work considers the relationship between cloth, culture and race.
Checinska studied fashion and textile design at the University of the West of England in Bristol and graduate with a bachelor's degree in fashion and textile design in 1986.[1] She earned a master's degree at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in 2002.[2] Checinska moved to Goldsmiths, University of London for her doctoral studies, where she studied the aesthetic of the Windrush generation.[3] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of East London[4][5] Checinska worked with Iniva (the Institute for International Visual Arts) on several projects, including Cloth & Differences and Social Fabric, which explored textiles and social processes. She established the Clothes, Cloth and Culture Group at Iniva's Stuart Hall Library in 2013.[2][6]